One of the greatest and best-loved jazz singers of all time with an
extraordinary vocal range, Ella Fitzgerald used her wonderful voice and
improvisational scat singing to achieve worldwide renown and an international
fan base. She was mostly raised in Yonkers, New York by her mother and
originally wanted to be a dancer, but when her mother brought home a record by
The Boswell Sisters she became hooked on jazz music.
Her mother died when Ella was just 15-years-old and the grief sent the teenager
down a destructive spiral as she started skipping school, running away from the
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